Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 82

Chapter 6 / Command Reference
DIR (Directory)
DIR
[pathname][lP][lW]
Internal
' -
Displays: (1) information about all files or the specified files
that are in the current directory or in the directory specified by
pathname or (2) information about the file specified by
pathname.
Parameters
pathname indicates a specific file. If you omit the pathname,
MS-DOS lists the directory entries for all files that are in the
current directory. You can use the MS-DOS wild cards in the
pathname.
IP selects the page mode. With IP, display of the directory pauses
when the screen is filled. It displays this message:
Strlke a key when ready ...
To resume display of output, press
I
SPACEBAR
I.
IW
selects a wide display. With
IW,
MS-DOS displays filenames
only; it does not display sizes or modification dates.
Notes and Suggestions
• DIR first causes MS-DOS to display the disk's volume label,
which was assigned during formatting. If you did not assign a
label, MS-DOS displays a message to that effect. Then MS-
DOS lists each file with its size (in bytes) and the time and
date of the last modification. It then gives the number of files
listed and the number of bytes remaining on the disk.
• If you do not include a filename extension, DIR assumes the
.*
wildcard extension.
• If the filename does not include an extension, add a period to
the end of the filename in the DIR command.
• If the Version 3.2 COUNTRY command in the CONFIG.SYS
file is set to a country other than the U.S., the directory date
and time formats differ. Refer to Appendix B for more
information.
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